Combined tie and collar fastener.



D. HEPP.

GOMBINBD TIE AND COLLAR FASTENER.

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1,019,324, Patented Mar.5, 1912.

' wuv/wliom lzmzjf a DANIEL HEPP,

or CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS.

COMBINED TIE AND COLLAR FASTENER.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL I-IEPP, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Tie and CollarFasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a necktie fastener and more specifically to anovel attachment upon which is mounted a plate provided with one or moreresilient seats for a collar button.

Hitherto the conventional type of necktie fastener for ready madeneckties and similar cravats intended for ready connection to aturn-down or similar collar have retained many undesirable featureswhich have retarded the simplicity and utility of the fastener.

The object of my invention is to provide a necktie fastener for a bownecktie and similar ready made cravats which will be positively held inengagement with a specially arranged collar button or stud.

WVith this and other advantages in View,

' my invention consists in the construct-ion,

combination, and arrangement of parts clearly shown in the drawings anddefined in the appended claim.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a detailed View of a collar button intendedfor use with my novel necktie fastener. Fig. 2 is a front elevation ofmy necktie fastener showing the perforated plate suit-ably mountedthereon.

The collar button to be used in connection with my necktie fastener isof the usual construction with the exception that the stud portionthereof is somewhat elongated and formed with a groove.

D indicates the back plate or rest of the collar button, and D is theshank thereof, and C denotes the stud formed around its surface with thegroove B. The necktie. fastener comprises the bearing winged portion Iwhich will, in the conventional manner, be inserted between the folds ofa turn-down collar before the collar button is connected to a suitableopening now to be described. The portion I will be formed of rigid ma-Speeification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 10, 1908.

Patented Mar. 5, 1912.

Serial No. 466,858.

terial of suitable contour and upon it, preferably in a centralposition, will be suitably mounted a plate G taking the marginal outlineof the winged portion I. The plate G carries the elongated perforatedmember R which may have one or more openings R for the reception of acollar but-ton. As shown, the member R is formed with two split openingsR having flanged collars S, the opposite separated walls of the openingbeing shown at S The two openings R are preferably in alinement and thesplit portions S are positioned at the ends of the member B beingpivoted to the plate G upon which it is mounted, and preferably with oneof the openings projecting at the bottom of the bearing surface I. Itwill be understood, however, that one of the openings B may project attheupper end of the bearing surface I without detracting in any way fromthe utility of the device, as shown in dotted lines. The winged bearingsurface I has a corresponding opening registering with the openingformed in the body of the plate G and member R.

In operation, the collar button of the form and arrangement shown inFig. 1 will be passed through the button hole therefor in a garment andthe bearing surface I having been interposed between the folded portionof a turn-down collar the same will be so positioned that the stud O ofthe collar button may be freely inserted through either one of theopenings R in the member R, according to the convenience which it isdesired to subserve. The stud portion C is of a greater diameter thansaid opening R but the groove way B in the stud is arranged to snuglyengage the wall of either opening, and it will be obvious that it is thefunction of the split or cut away portion of each opening to yield tothe advance of the stud C having been placed over the opening, thebutton is pushed through thereby forcing asunder the opposite portionswhich are cut away; thereby causing the flanged collars S of the openingto embrace the wall of the groove B to hold the collar button andbearing surface I in connection with the garment. The bow or other formof ready made necktie or cravat Will be secured to my necktie fastenerin the method now known to those skilled in the art.

That which I desire to claim by Letters Patent, is

A combined tie and collar fastener, consisting of a button having agrooved head, a tie backing, an oblong plate pivoted to said tiebacking, said plate being provided with perforations at either endthereof and having slots extending therefrom for engaging the groovedhead of the button, one of said perforations being at the pivotal pointof said plate.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, 15 in presence of tWoWitnesses.

DANIEL HEPP. Witnesses HERBERT DmRssEN, LESLlE M. OCONNOR.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

